already, hundreds of troops have been pulling back from the border survey. u.s.-backed syrian democratic forces responded to the president's decision, "we hope our u.s. partners will reverse this decision and not abandon our combined effort in northeast syria." >> syrian kurds, who we are talking about here, most over 11,000 in that fight. and i we are trying to keep our foot on their throat so they don't reemerge again in eastern syria, and they are already showing some activity. how can we possibly walk away from them? it will happen when he pulled out of iraq. we won the war there, bush handed a victory to president obama. obama walked away because he was fed up with it. >> iran's foreign minister says he will make up the void in syria after the u.s. forces leave. harris? >> harris: lucas, thank you very much. he knew u.s. supreme court session gets underway today after raucous protests mark the one-year anniversary of brett kavanaugh's confirmation into the nation's highest court. protesters at the rally called unfit to sit, demanding his